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AP study: Nearly 90% of esports scholarships going to men
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Skifi28
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Now imagine some of them failed because they spent too much time reading books instead of gaming.
ReBurn
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video games are the only thing zoomers have the attention span to do for extended period of time
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Jeeves
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The gulf between mobile games and traditional gaming is so massive that you may as well consider them two different hobbies. Speaking about the difference in the styles of games and also the culture surrounding them.
Any study that lumps them together comes off as disingenuous at best.
Any study that lumps them together comes off as disingenuous at best.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
41% lmao.
more like 4.1%. I have been gaming all my life. I have never met a single girl who has even owned a console.
These are fake gamers who play candy crush on their cellphones and think thats a video game.
more like 4.1%. I have been gaming all my life. I have never met a single girl who has even owned a console.
These are fake gamers who play candy crush on their cellphones and think thats a video game.
Punished Miku
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EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Who’s the esports champion?
StormCell
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But that is a valid way to view things. esports is very focused on certain genres that are preferred by men. Perhaps they should look into offering competitions and scholarships in games that are not traditionally esports. They will probably lose some money on it, but when has this not ever been the case?
Frankly, watching people indirectly compete with one another at Stardew Valley might just be worth watching...
MightySquirrel
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BusierDonkey
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I think you need to look at what is considered a game. The end of the article only really hints at this. Droning out on a mobile game is considered being a gamer now. When I still worked in retail, a lot of the women were playing games on Facebook and before that MSM. They'd be counted as gamers as much as some dude that eats, sleeps and works around his favorite MMO or the world speed run record holder in Tomba 2.
Interfectum
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Soodanim
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Pretty open and shut right there, all we needed was statistics to confirm or deny suspicions. Thread's done.The answers are right there in the link to the demographics.
77% of woman in the age group play games on smart phones. Most prefer to play alone. Not exactly stats that scream "esports".
2020 Essential Facts About the Video Game Industry (theesa.com)
Julius Ibidus
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yeah, what the hell? where's my donkey kong jd degree?
Reptars Revenge
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Competitive candy crush with all the women scholarships they can handle. Problem solved.The answers are right there in the link to the demographics.
77% of woman in the age group play games on smart phones. Most prefer to play alone. Not exactly stats that scream "esports".
2020 Essential Facts About the Video Game Industry (theesa.com)
Julius Ibidus
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ok, i laughed. i bought my lady an area 51 a couple of years ago for gaming, and guess what she spent her time playing? should have known. live and learn, i suppose...
OmegaSupreme
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Step it up ladies
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Otherspacing
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Easy fix. Incentivize half of them to become trans girls.
Take that, baguettes!
Take that, baguettes!
meanspartan
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Another thing to notice here is that every girl on this team is conventionally attractive. That's the real sexism, if any. They didn't try to gather up the best female LoL players in Russia, they gathered up attractive girls as priority #1. Maybe they played LoL decently at a non-esports level, but obviously they had no chance against real competition.
Most esports champions are not conventionally attractive, they are average looking, because most people are average looking.
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Gunslinger
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Would love to see more female representation in esports as it is mostly dominated by males. I wish more females were into video games though i think number of female gamers have gone up drastically over the last decade which to me is a welcome sight. Video game communities were a sausage fest anyways atleast when i was a arcade regular back in the 90s.
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Kenpachii
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We cant simply accept this.
We need to force a minimum 50% famale Esports players.
We also need to force a minimum 25% trans Esports players.
We furthermore need to force a minimum 15% Queer Esports players.
DI
oh nvm it was already posted.
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adamosmaki
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There are scholarships for esports? That in and of its self is already ridiculous enough let alone we already know that most of those surveys are BS and take into account females playing on smartphones as"gamers"
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HerjansEagleFeeder
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Even if overall 80% of gamers were female, that number has no meaning in the context of esports because it has no relation to it. Average gamers are not to esports players what, lets say, average workers are to people in management positions. It's not like gamers in general have a career in esports on their radar let alone even think this is desirable or somehow the logical "next step" in their gaming hobby, lol.
zaanan
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Oddvintagechap
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ESports term is here to stay huh.
MeatSafeMurderer
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I think that the real story here is that colleges and universities have esports scholarships. I like gaming as much as the next guy but I think that's kind of retarded (same goes for sports scholarships).
Also 41%? Not of the type of games that are played at esports competitions, that's for sure. I know a few women who do play such games but they're pretty few and far between.
Also 41%? Not of the type of games that are played at esports competitions, that's for sure. I know a few women who do play such games but they're pretty few and far between.
Kikorin
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Everyone who tried to play a game at a competitive level know the insane amount of time and dedication that is required. Is something that just a small percentage of people can do (like the traditional sports at a professional level). You can't compare e-sports to traditional gaming or, even worst, mobile gaming.
Also, I'm pretty sure there are no barriers for woman in e-sports, only thing that matter is how good you are at play a game, for example SuperGirlKels is a female Smash Bros. Player that was ranked in the top-100 with male players because of her results in tournament. This is the only thing that matter in e-sports and is the most fair thing you can get. Probably the percentage of man playing competitive games is so high compared to woman that, right now, there are pretty much just men that compete in e-sports. If gaming will become a common hobby between girls too in future, I'm sure we'll starts to see more women compete in e-sports.
Also, I'm pretty sure there are no barriers for woman in e-sports, only thing that matter is how good you are at play a game, for example SuperGirlKels is a female Smash Bros. Player that was ranked in the top-100 with male players because of her results in tournament. This is the only thing that matter in e-sports and is the most fair thing you can get. Probably the percentage of man playing competitive games is so high compared to woman that, right now, there are pretty much just men that compete in e-sports. If gaming will become a common hobby between girls too in future, I'm sure we'll starts to see more women compete in e-sports.
regawdless
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Clearly a sign of systemic sexism, toxic masculinity and male patriarchy.
Therefore we need to tear down statues, deconstruct society and destroy the system.
Therefore we need to tear down statues, deconstruct society and destroy the system.
nkarafo
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And we all know how this is going to be "solved" eventually.
They can't force a female team VS males because we saw what happened with that. They won't risk embarrassing themselves like that again.
So what they'll do is to force a certain number of female players into all teams. It will be mandatory to have, say, at least 2 female members to be eligible. This way all teams will be equally handicapped. So the win/loss ratio won't change much. The only difference is this time female players will be able to win!
Ofc, fans who watch the games and know what is what will also see the female players being carried by the male ones 100% of the time. But that's not a concern for the twitter crowd or the casual normie feminists who don't watch the games and don't really care about them. All that matters is the narrative. Female players will become "as good as men" since they will have equal percentage of wins and they will also earn equal rewards and scholarships. Problem solved. Equality achieved.
They can't force a female team VS males because we saw what happened with that. They won't risk embarrassing themselves like that again.
So what they'll do is to force a certain number of female players into all teams. It will be mandatory to have, say, at least 2 female members to be eligible. This way all teams will be equally handicapped. So the win/loss ratio won't change much. The only difference is this time female players will be able to win!
Ofc, fans who watch the games and know what is what will also see the female players being carried by the male ones 100% of the time. But that's not a concern for the twitter crowd or the casual normie feminists who don't watch the games and don't really care about them. All that matters is the narrative. Female players will become "as good as men" since they will have equal percentage of wins and they will also earn equal rewards and scholarships. Problem solved. Equality achieved.
